Baroque Photostories

See the final products.

Baroque Characteristics

baroque_characteristics2.ppt

Google Art Project

"Great Masters" Photostory Project

Choose a "Great Master" from the 17th century.

• Mr. Mullen has a collection of 17th century painters.
• Chapter 21 of the Humanities textbook is devoted to these painters-- read about them.

Select 3 paintings

• Think and read about them. Use the textbook, the internet, the art books in the classroom, and the library.
• Talk about them.
• Enjoy them, for they are beautiful!
• Find the pictures online and copy them to your folder or flash drive.

Create a Video about the paintings.

• We Video is recommended.

The video should contain... (33)

• the paintings
• a voiceover explaining each painting
• some baroque music

The video should teach... (66)

• the painter's signature style-- how do you know this painting is by this artist?
• how the paintings are Baroque
• what prominent imagery, metaphors, conceits, paradoxes, and / or ironies are present in the paintings
• in what 17th century poem(s) you have seen similar poetic devices

Singles or pairs only-- no trios or quartets (or quintets, etc.)

3 pictures

A few minutes

Early Baroque Composers

whose music you can include in your Photostory:

• Monteverdi
• Schutz
• Carissimi
• Corelli
• Lully
• Purcell
• Praetorius

Monteverdi: Orfeo

Libretto: http://www.naxos.com/education/opera_libretti.asp?pn=&char=ALL&composer=Monteverdi&opera=Orfeo&libretto_file=English/Act_1.htm

Heinrich Schutz, SWV 335     Psalm 42

Carissimi, Jephthe

Judges 11.29-38

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges+11&version=NIV\

(from the moment Jephtha sees his daughter emerge from the house), from Cum / vidisset / Jephte, / qui / votum / Domino / voverat,

Libretto

http://www.jamescsliu.com/classical/Carissimi_Jephte.html#text